Jayne's biography continued...

    Hollywood established Jayne, the Broadway comedienne, as Jayne, the serious dramatic actress, in such films as:  Undercurrent, with Katherine Hepburn; David and Bathsheba, with Gregory Peck; Lady in the Lake, with Robert Montgomery; Enchantment, with David Niven; The Song of the Thin Man, with William Powell and Myrna Loy; Fat Man, with Rock Hudson; Dr. Kildare, with Lionel Barrymore and Luck of the Irish, opposite Tyrone Power -- to name a few.

"Undercurrent" with Katherine Hepburn

  
 In recent years she has been in such box office hits as:  City Slickers (Billy Crystal's mother); City Slickers II (Billy Crystal's mother), Casino, with Steve Allen and Joe Pesci; Robert Altman's Player; Norman is That You? with Pearl Bailey; College Confidential, with Steve Allen; and Murder by the Numbers, with Shari Belafonte.

College Confidential

   On television she starred in virtually all the prestigious dramatic programs of the Golden Age of Television:  Hallmark Hall of Fame, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, Studio One, General Electric Theater, U.S. Steel Hour, Robert Montgomery Presents, the DuPont Show of the Week and Kraft Television Theater.
    During all the above activity, Jayne managed to appear as a regular panelist on CBS's top-rated I've Got a Secret for seven years, a popular program consistently rated one of the top ten prime-time shows for the duration of her tenure.   I've Got a Secret made her a household name and the second highest-rated actress on the CBS network after Lucille Ball.
   Among her dramatic credits are:  four years on the award-winning Meeting of Minds, for which she co-wrote and performed the epic characters Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Catherine the Great, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, and the 90-year-old Florence Nightingale (Emmy nomination, 1979);   two episodes on St. Elsewhere (Emmy nomination, 1987); Murder She Wrote, Sisters, and Medical Center (three years).

Meeting of Minds
    A few of her Movies-of-the-Week include Alice in Wonderland (as the Queen of Hearts for CBS), Hawaiian Honeymoon (Disney-NBC), Bob Hope's Nice, Deadly Weekend (NBC), Ten Speed and Brownshoe (ABC), the James Dean Story (CBS -- as Hedda Hopper), Miss All American Beauty (CBS).   Miss Meadows also was the co-host with Arthur Godfrey of the first two years of the Miss Universe pageant.
  Jayne's television comedy career has been equally full with multiple appearances on the Red Skelton, Steve Allen and Milton Berle shows, as well as appearances with Bob Hope and Sid Caesar.

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